NASA Denies Claim Hackers Took Control of a Drone Midflight

NASA has denied hackers' claims that they infiltrated the agency's systems and took control of a drone mid-flight.

A hacker group calling itself AnonSec on Sunday posted a document to Pastebin, a website for storing and sharing text. The document was said to contain, among other things, NASA program descriptions, thousands of employee contacts, and logs of flights made by unmanned vehicles.

The hackers' document not only described the alleged breach, but accused NASA of being complicit in several wide-ranging conspiracies, including "chemtrails," a supposed program in which the government aerially spreads toxic chemicals.

NASA did not comment on this or several other accusations leveled in the document. It did say in its statement, however, that "NASA takes cybersecurity very seriously and will continue to fully investigate all of these allegations."